Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Quiet gcc about dangerous __builtin_return_address() operations

From	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Quiet gcc about dangerous __builtin_return_address() operations
Date	2016-09-15 17:20 +0200
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:08:10 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:54:50AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > Peter,
> > 
> > Can you pull this patch in? It probably should go to stable as well.  
> 
> I'm not sure how this relates to lockdep, which is why I mostly ignored
> the patch.

It's basically about get_lock_parent_ip() which is used for backtraces
of locks, and thus for debugging locks, so I really didn't know what to
label it as. Should the subject then just be:

   lock stack traces: ...

??

-- Steve

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Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Quiet gcc about dangerous  __builtin_return_address() operations Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-09-15 16:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Quiet gcc about dangerous  __builtin_return_address() operations Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-09-15 16:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Quiet gcc about dangerous  __builtin_return_address() operations Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-09-15 17:20 +0200

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